شَلّال root: ش-ل-ل / noun / plural: شَلّالات / definition: waterfall It’s been a beautifully busy long weekend. Beach walks, waterfalls, countryside drives—oh, and still stealing some minutes here and there to upload videos to my YouTube channel. But it’s back to my laptop now and a return to the Dictionary Finds series…
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Seven Arabic Terms for “Twilight”
غائِب root: غ-ي-ب / form I active participle / definition: absent, third person (gramm.) Writing about yourself in the third person always feels strange. And when I think of “third person”, I always think of Attila İlhan’s poem and then I feel even stranger. But I had to set that strangeness aside and rewrite myContinue reading “Seven Arabic Terms for “Twilight””
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